The Star Wars wiki of fan invention.

Star Wars Fanon was founded on August 30, 2005 by Neomessiah as a fan fiction version of Wookieepedia. Despite the date of creation, the Wiki did not become an active one until May 2006, a whole nine months after it was actually created. When it became active, numerous problems began to arise. There were various attempts to elect an active System Operator, also known as SysOps and Administrators, but all of the elections fell through and no one was elected. In June 2006, there was a major occurrence of vandalism throughout the entire Wiki which caused a Wiki-wide rollback effort, forcing many users to restart to the work they had been working on.

Despite the major string of vandalism, the community as a whole was able to come together in July 2006 to participate in the First Star Wars Fanon Wiki Awards. Hosted by Darth Vacatour, a total of twenty awards were handed out to various users. During the same month, the Senate Hall, the Fanon Cantina and the Star Wars Fanon IRC channel were established by the members.

In August 2006, StarNeptune was appointed by Wikia Staff to be the first Star Wars Fanon Administrator in order to help around the Wiki. Check user rights were also appointed, but only due to the heavy amount of vandalism. In October 2006, Jedi Master 76, C3PO the Dragon Slayer and Bub were also appointed to be Administrators.

As the Wiki continued to grow in size and membership, the Alliance of Fanon was established. In February 2007, much to the joy of the entire community, Star Wars Fanon was the featured Wikia Wiki. In April 2007, the community came together once again and held the Second Star Wars Fanon Wiki Awards. Hosted by Jasca Ducato, a total of twenty-seven awards were handed out to various users. Later that month, Jack Phoenix and Victor Dorantes were elected as Administrators.

Throughout the months of 2007, numerous new policies were established. The Voting Policy, Video policy and the Userbox Policy were all created, as was the Clan Policy. There was some backlash from members regarding the banning of clans, but the policy remained intact. The Manual of Style, the Layout Guide and the Categorization Policy were also extensively rewritten in order to conform to and create a much higher standard of quality. Thousands of uncategorized articles were also deleted by the Administration. Two additional user groups were created to oversee the promotion of articles. The Decreton Lords, whose name was based off of a rank in the Sith Order of Decreto, were created to oversee and handle the promotion of articles to Featured article status. Later, the High Priests, based off of a rank in the Bendu Order, were created to oversee and handle the promotion of articles to Good article status.

Four additional Administrators were elected by the community as a whole in two Administrative elections during the summer months. In June 2007, Wayne Lipman III and Jasca Ducato were elected by the community as Administrators. In September 2007, Brandon Rhea and Christian Ashley were also elected by the community as Administrators. There have been no further Administrative elections since the last election ended on September 1, 2007. Once again, the community as a whole came together in January and February of 2008 for the Third Star Wars Fanon Wiki Awards. Hosted by Brandon Rhea and Victor Dorantes, a total of twenty-three awards were handed out to various users. In July 2008, Gnosis is knowledge and Michaeldsuarez became Administrators after the resignations of Squishy Vic and Jedi Master 76.

Star Wars Fanon is proud to currently have 23,095 articles and 8,307 uploaded files, as well as a consistent number of active users who contribute daily to make Star Wars Fanon a premier Wiki for fans of the Star Wars Saga to delve into the universe and use and express their vast imaginations.

Contents 1 Major Events 1.1 August 2005 1.1.1 August 30 1.2 May 2006 1.2.1 May 19 1.2.2 May 20 1.3 June 2006 1.3.1 June 2 1.3.2 June 8 1.3.3 June 9 1.3.4 June 14 1.3.5 June 15 1.3.6 June 21 1.3.7 June 23 1.3.8 June 26 1.3.9 June 30 1.4 July 2006 1.4.1 July 1 1.4.2 July 4 1.4.3 July 6 1.4.4 July 9 1.4.5 July 20 1.4.6 July 21 1.5 August 2006 1.5.1 August 10 1.6 October 2006 1.6.1 October 12 1.6.2 October 14 1.7 December 2006 1.7.1 December 22 1.8 February 2007 1.8.1 February 4 1.8.2 February 5 1.9 March 2007 1.9.1 March 1 1.10 April 2007 1.10.1 April 14 1.10.2 April 16 1.10.3 April 30 1.11 May 2007 1.11.1 May 13 1.11.2 May 28 1.12 June 2007 1.12.1 June 3 1.12.2 June 27 1.13 July 1.13.1 July 1 1.13.2 July 7 1.13.3 July 8 1.13.4 July 12 1.13.5 July 15 1.13.6 July 16 1.13.7 July 18 1.14 September 2007 1.14.1 September 1 1.14.2 September 30 1.15 October 2007 1.15.1 October 6 1.15.2 October 24 1.16 November 2007 1.16.1 November 23 1.16.2 November 24 1.16.3 November 27 1.17 December 2007 1.17.1 December 13 1.17.2 December 23 1.17.3 December 29 1.18 January 2008 1.18.1 January 1 1.18.2 January 2 1.18.3 January 5 1.18.4 January 8 1.18.5 January 16 1.18.6 January 21 1.18.7 January 27 1.19 February 2008 1.19.1 February 5 1.19.2 February 16 1.19.3 February 17 1.19.4 February 18 1.20 March 2008 1.20.1 March 29 1.21 April 2008 1.21.1 April 9 1.21.2 April 23 1.21.3 April 26 1.22 May 2008 1.22.1 May 23 1.22.2 May 25 1.22.3 May 31 1.23 June 2008 1.23.1 June 8 1.23.2 June 14 1.23.3 June 22 1.23.4 June 23 1.23.5 June 28 1.23.6 June 30 1.24 July 2008 1.24.1 July 12 1.24.2 July 23 1.25 August 2008 1.25.1 August 2 1.25.2 August 4 1.25.3 August 21 1.25.4 August 22 1.25.5 August 26 1.26 September 2008 1.26.1 September 10 1.26.2 September 11 1.26.3 September 17 1.26.4 September 26 1.27 October 2008 1.27.1 October 5 1.27.2 October 13 1.27.3 October 27 1.28 November 2008 1.28.1 November 22 1.29 December 2008

[edit] Major Events

[edit] August 2005

[edit] August 30

• Star Wars Fanon is founded by Neomessiah as a fan fiction version of Wookieepedia, the Star Wars Canon Wiki.

[edit] May 2006

[edit] May 19

• Star Wars Fanon began going through a massive reorganization. The users of the Wiki began an election to try to appoint the first Administrators to keep the Wiki in working order.

[edit] May 20

• TempMan and Wikimaniac are accused of vandalism by Wikia Staff, resulting in major arguments throughout the community.

[edit] June 2006

[edit] June 2

• An impersonator of Wikimaniac appeared and began to cause havoc throughout the community.

[edit] June 8

• The Miss Star Wars Fanon 2006 contest began, which then became cause for the creation of a Mister Star Wars Fanon 2006 contest.

[edit] June 9

• Di'e Go Am'er'ez withdrew from the Administrative election.

[edit] June 14

• A massive string of vandalism attacks were carried out by Crumb 9 and Crumb 10. It took days to revert the massive page moves that the vandals carried out.

[edit] June 15

• Sannse announced that a massive database rollback due to the devastating moving of pages carried out by Crumb 9 and Crumb 10. Legitimate articles, along with the vandalism, were deleted or reverted. To recover the legitimate articles, the data was moved to a Jasontest Wiki.

[edit] June 21

• Darth Vacatour proposed that the community hold the First Star Wars Fanon Wiki Awards.
• MaulYoda withdrew from the Administrative election. His brother, Nihilusdude, took his place.

[edit] June 23

• MaulYoda was re-nominated in the Administrative election.

[edit] June 26

• Star Wars Fanon gained it’s 1000th article after nearly one year of existence.

[edit] June 30

• The First Star Wars Fanon Wiki Awards began under the leadership of the Wiki Awards Council, a group formed to help accelerate the progress of the awards.

[edit] July 2006

[edit] July 1

• The First Star Wars Fanon Wiki Awards ended. A total of twenty awards were handed out to various users.

[edit] July 4

• The Senate Hall , modeled after the Wookieepedia Forum, was introduced and created by C3PO the Dragon Slayer.

[edit] July 6

• The Fanon Council was created in an attempt to replace the elective duties of Administrators until Administrators could be elected.

[edit] July 9

• A Star Wars Fanon IRC Channel was created at #swfanon on irc.freenode.net.

[edit] July 20

• The Fanon Cantina was created by Aiddat.

[edit] July 21

• The Picture Drive was created.

[edit] August 2006

[edit] August 10

• StarNeptune was appointed as the first Star Wars Fanon Administrator. She was granted Checkuser rights to allow her to distinguish Sockpuppets from legitimate users.

[edit] October 2006

[edit] October 12

• Star Wars Fanon Jeopardy, a game show to test user’s knowledge of everyone’s fanon works and other relevant site topics, began. The game show was a self-test collaboration to keep the community aware of its creations.

[edit] October 14

• Jedi Master 76, C3PO the Dragon Slayer and Bub were appointed as Star Wars Fanon Administrators.

[edit] December 2006

[edit] December 22

• A very active community celebration took place with a Mandalorian theme.
• The Alliance of Fanon was created by C3PO the Dragon Slayer.

[edit] February 2007

[edit] February 4

• Star Wars Fanon becomes a featured Wikia Wiki.

[edit] February 5

• The first portal page was created for Star Wars: Mandalorians - Path to Glory, making Star Wars Fanon one of the few Wikia Wikis to use alternative main pages to emphasize a sub-project.

[edit] March 2007

[edit] March 1

• Star Wars Fanon gained a German sister Wiki.

[edit] April 2007

[edit] April 14

• A second Mandalorian-themed community celebration took place.

[edit] April 16

• The Second Star Wars Fanon Wiki Awards, hosted by Jasca Ducato, began.

[edit] April 30

• Victor Dorantes and Jack Phoenix were elected as Administrators.

[edit] May 2007

[edit] May 13

• A new logo was approved by the community, thus rendering the need for a new Wiki design.
• The clans of Star Wars Fanon were deleted after a long period of voting that saw the creation of the Clan Policy. There was some backlash to the new proposal, though the policy remained and the criticism subsided.

[edit] May 28

• The High Priests, a board of members that were appointed to oversee the nominations of Good Articles and provide constructive criticism or praise, were officially created. Brandon Rhea, Wayne Lipman III, Gnosis is knowledge, Jedi Master 76 and Darth tader were appointed as the five High Priests.

[edit] June 2007

[edit] June 3

• Per community consensus, the Decreton Lords would be the sole members to vote on the nominations for Featured Articles. Community voting would be involved in the selection of Good Articles instead.
• For the first time, rollback rights were given to users. The recipients of the newfound responsibility were Jasca Ducato and Gnosis is knowledge.

[edit] June 27

• Jasca Ducato and Wayne Lipman III were elected as Administrators.

[edit] July

[edit] July 1

• The Manual of Style and Layout Guide underwent an extensive rewrite by Brandon Rhea in order to create and conform to a higher standard of quality.

[edit] July 7

• The consensus of the community warranted the removal of Good Article showcasing on the main page. Because of major disagreements, a compromise was created to include a link to the Good Article of the Week under the showcasing of Featured Articles.

[edit] July 8

• The Halo Fanon Wiki became the first official friend of Star Wars Fanon. A link to Halo Fanon was added to the Star Wars Fanon main page, and the same was done on the Halo Fanon main page.

[edit] July 12

• TheStarWarsRP.Com, an active role-playing site that had placed many articles on Star Wars Fanon, became the second official friend of Star Wars Fanon.

[edit] July 15

• High Priests Brandon Rhea and Wayne Lipman III were promoted to Decreton Lords by the community and users Pinky49 and Solus were elected to take their place as High Priests.

[edit] July 16

• In a vote of thirteen to one, links were no longer allowed in section titles of articles.

[edit] July 18

• Thousands of uncategorized pages were deleted by the Administration.

[edit] September 2007

[edit] September 1

• Brandon Rhea and Christian Ashley were elected as Administrators.
• Dexington was elected as a High Priest.

[edit] September 30

• The Featured Article requirements were significantly increased.

[edit] October 2007

[edit] October 6

• The second Decreton Lord Featured Article Review began.

[edit] October 24

• The Critic's Lounge, a place for users to civilly critique articles, was established.

[edit] November 2007

[edit] November 23

• A new set of Good article requirements was established through consensus.

[edit] November 24

• The partnership with the Halo Fanon Wiki was removed through consensus.
• A community-wide Random Page clean up began.

[edit] November 27

• A Video Policy was established through consensus.

[edit] December 2007

[edit] December 13

• A Userbox Policy was established through consensus.

[edit] December 23

• Darth tader and Dexington were re-elected as High Priests. MPK and Xepeyon were also elected.
• Brandon Rhea and Victor Dorantes were chosen to be the hosts of the Third Star Wars Fanon Wiki Awards.

[edit] December 29

• The Improvement Drive returned, though the High Priests will be the ones to nominate and vote on articles for the improvement collaboration.

[edit] January 2008

[edit] January 1

• Nominations for the Third Star Wars Fanon Wiki Awards began.

[edit] January 2

• Darth tader resigned from his position as a High Priest.

[edit] January 5

• The first Good Article Review was held by the High Priests.

[edit] January 8

• The Picture Drive was voted to be removed as a feature of Star Wars Fanon.
• Brandon Rhea and Gnosis is knowledge were re-elected as High Priests.

[edit] January 16

• Voting for the Third Star Wars Fanon Wiki Awards began.

[edit] January 21

• A proposal was made to change the name of Star Wars Fanon to Star Wars Fan Fiction.

[edit] January 27

• Wayne Lipman III resigned from his position as a Decreton Lord.

[edit] February 2008

[edit] February 5

• The proposal to change the name of Star Wars Fanon to Star Wars Fan Fiction was rejected.

[edit] February 16

• Voting for the Third Star Wars Fanon Wiki Award ended and the winners were announced.

[edit] February 17

• The requests for adminship archives underwent a drastic rewrite, detailing the events of every election thus far.

[edit] February 18

• The current events page went through a drastic rewrite.

[edit] March 2008

[edit] March 29

• A proposal to become partners with Darthipedia was made.

[edit] April 2008

[edit] April 9

• The proposal to become partners with Darthipedia was approved.

[edit] April 23

• Neomessiah announces he will officially leave Star Wars Fanon, but will return from time to time.

[edit] April 26

• An offical forum for Project Cruentus was created.

[edit] May 2008

[edit] May 23

• Elections for two new High Priests began when Dexington resigned.

[edit] May 25

• Joe Butler proposed to establish a Quote of the Week on the main page which quotes from fanon articles would be chosen by members. The same day, Squishy Vic put up a clarified proposal.

[edit] May 31

• Elections for two new leaders of the Completely Unofficial Star Wars Fanon Newsletter began.

[edit] June 2008

[edit] June 8

• Squishy Vic and Brandon Rhea were chosen as the new leaders of the Completely Unofficial Star Wars Fanon Newsletter.
• Voting for two new High Priests concludes, and Darth tom and Red Head Rider are chosen as the two new High Priests.

[edit] June 14

• The Quote of the Week proposal was approved by the community.

[edit] June 22

• Squishy Vic stepped down as Administrator, Bureaucrat, and Decreton Lord.

[edit] June 23

• Voting for a new administrator began.
• Voting for a new Bureaucrat began.

[edit] June 28

• Voting for two new Decreton Lords began.

[edit] June 30

• Jedi Master 76 stepped down as an Administrator and Decreton Lord. A new spot for an Administrator in the administrator election became open.

[edit] July 2008

[edit] July 12

• Voting for two new Decreton Lords ended. Atarumaster88 and MPK became the new Decreton Lords.
• Voting for the new Bureaucrat ended upon an agreement to end it early by the Administrators. Brandon Rhea was elected as the new Bureaucrat.

[edit] July 23

• Voting for two new Administrators ended. Gnosis is knowledge and Michaeldsuarez were elected as Administrators.

[edit] August 2008

[edit] August 2

• Brandon Rhea proposed to ban animated .GIF images from mainspace articles.

[edit] August 4

• Due to popular vote, the Star Wars Photo Novels Wiki became an official partner of Star Wars Fanon.

[edit] August 21

• Arav the Undersith created a forum in which you can be nominated and voted on to become an IRC Channel Operator.

[edit] August 22

• Jedi Master 76 added a de-oping section to Forum:Massive Chan-Oping.

[edit] August 26

• Voting for more High Priests began following the resignation of Red Head Rider.

[edit] September 2008

[edit] September 10

• A proposal was created by by Brandon Rhea, to finally disallow users to make Joke articles.

[edit] September 11

• The proposal to ban animated .GIF images in mainspace articles was approved by the community.
• A proposal was made by Brandon Rhea to change the FA and GA review boards.

[edit] September 17

• The proposal to disallow users to make Joke articles passed with overwhelming support by the community.

[edit] September 26

• The proposal to change the FA and GA review boards passed, enacting the first proposal listed. The Council of Seers was created shortly thereafter.

[edit] October 2008

[edit] October 5

• A forum was created by Arav the Undersith to remove the inactive members of Project Cruentus.

[edit] October 13

• The forum to rid Project Cruentus of inactive members finished and the appropriate users were removed from the members list.

[edit] October 27

• A forum was created by Solus to rid/keep the sites joke articles.

[edit] November 2008

[edit] November 22

• The hosts were chosen for the 4th Wiki Awards and they were Solus and Jedi Master 76.

[edit] December 2008